EUCHARISTIC LITURGY – Canon: Oblation Prayers

   The celebrant resumes the Eucharistic Prayer after the consecration, interpreting the mystery not only as a commemoration but also as an oblation, a sacrificial offering to God:

   Unde et memores, Domine, nos servi tui, sed et plebs tua sancta, ejusdem Christi Filii tui Domini nostri tam beatae Passionis, nec non et ab inferis Resurrectionis, sed et in caelos gloriosae Ascensionis: offerimus praeclarae majestati tuae, de tuis donis ac datis, hostiam puram, hostiam sanctam, hostiam immaculatam, Panem sanctum vitae aeternae et Calicem salutis perpetuae.

   Wherefore, O Lord, we your servants, and likewise your holy people, calling to mind the blessed Passion of the same Christ, your Son our Lord, and also his Resurrection from hell and also his glorious Ascension into heaven, offer to your most excellent majesty, of your gifts and presents, a pure victim, a holy victim, a spotless victim, the holy Bread of eternal life and the Chalice of everlasting salvation.

   Supra quae propitio ac sereno vultu respicere digneris, et accepta habere, sicuti accepta habere dignitatus es munera pueri tui justia Abel, et sacrificium Patriarchae nostri Abrahae: et quod tibi obtulit summus sacerdos tuus Melchisedech, sanctum sacrificium, immaculatam hostiam.

   Upon which vouchsafe to look with a propitious and serene countenance, and to accept them as you were pleased to accept the gifts of your just servant Abel, and the sacrifice of our Patriarch Abraham, and that which your high priest Melchisedech offered to you, a holy sacrifice, a spotless victim.

   The celebrant, bowing low, continues his prayer:

   Supplices te rogamus, omnipotens Deus: jube haec perferri per manus sancti Angeli tui in sublime altare tuum, in conspectu divinae majestatis tuae: ut quotquot, ex hac altaris participatione sacrosanctum Filii tui Corpus et Sanguinem sumpserimus, omni benedictione caelesti et gratia repleamur. Per eumdem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

   We most humbly beseech you, almighty God, command these things to be carried up by the hands of your holy angel to your altar on high, in the sight of your divine majesty, that as many of us who, by participation at this altar, shall receive the most sacred Body and Blood of your Son may be filled with every heavenly blessing and grace. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.